«La rivoluzione non è che un sentimento». Antagonismo e lotta di classe nella poesia di Pasolini

Starting from the concept of ‘ideo-elegia’, which can prove useful for characterizing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poetry, that is, from the indissoluble co-presence and synthesis, within his verses, of the ideological and elegiac components, the essay addresses the theme of the working class condition and the class struggle in the poetic production of the writer from Casarsa, from "Le ceneri di Gramsci" (Garzanti, 1957) to "Poesia in forma di rosa" (Garzanti, 1964), bringing these aspects back into the more composite civil and revolutionary dimension of his overall work.